Read about indie hacking from the trenches

Indie Hacking – building smol businesses on your own terms – is a strange beast to me. From my first experiments back in 2011 where I went from idea to sales in 3 days to nowadays where I have a full-time job but think like a consultant, indie hacking has been near and dear to my heart.

I believe this is the best and worst time to launch something.

The best because consumers are used to paying and they hate big tech. People want your thing and they want to pay you. Not a faceless behemoth that steals their data and turns users into commodities. Blech

And if you're an engineer or product manager, the swan song of easy money in tech is irresistible.

Sometimes it feels like my career is running backwards πŸ˜…

But I'll never stop tinkering on the side. Multiple streams of income are a great way to recession proof your career.

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Latest IndieHacking articles from Swizec

13 articles from 2018 Β· show all

December 2018

How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business

November 2018

React for Dataviz Turkey πŸ¦ƒ sale report for the curious

Oh the things you can learn with a fun weekend hack project πŸ—

October 2018

Why you aren’t drowning in recruiters, too

September 2018

How I sponsored my own genius visa

July 2018

Announcing: Big update to my best selling book and course, React + D3v4

The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code

June 2018

Intern process part 2 – (my first) webinar, about React context

Tech intern job

February 2018

2018 is off to a rocky start

January 2018

Don't say yes when you're happy

Am I thinking too small?

How I sidehustled $72,167 last year, and what I wanna do next